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By Gareth Hatch |
December 29, 2011
In the announcement from the ministry, it was stated that the first round of quota allocations (totaling 24,904 t) will represent 80% of the quota allocations for 2012, which indicates that the total for the coming year will be 31,130 t of rare earths
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By Gareth Hatch |
December 20, 2011
Take a deep breath, folks. Being a materials scientist by training, I am naturally a big fan of ongoing research and development work. I am much less of a fan of the now well-worn path of hype disguised as scientific breakthroughs
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By Gareth Hatch |
November 14, 2011
To my knowledge Molycorp has never actually explicitly said that they would produce separated MREOs/HREOs as part of the ramp up to 40,000t of, but the company has asserted that it will produce such elements in "commercially significant quantities."
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By Gareth Hatch |
October 25, 2011
The list of projects on the TMR Advanced Rare-Earth Projects Index has just been updated with two new rare-earth mineral resource estimates announced in recent weeks and other updates.
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By Gareth Hatch |
October 10, 2011
Overall, I was impressed with all aspects of the Strange Lake project, and the management team behind it. The project is clearly well on its way to completing the pre-feasibility study, and determining the flow sheets required to produce end products.
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By Gareth Hatch |
October 5, 2011
The rare-earths community has been all a-buzz these past 24 hours with news from Molycorp, Inc. that they are looking to develop a heavy rare-earth element (HREE) prospect in the USA.
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By Gareth Hatch |
September 28, 2011
Over the weekend I updated the list of projects on the TMR Advanced Rare-Earth Projects Index to reflect not one but two new rare-earth mineral resource estimates, which were announced earlier this month
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By Gareth Hatch |
July 25, 2011
The hard-disk drive industry is an important end-use market for rare-earth materials, and the components which contain them. Both ends of the overall supply chain would do well to keep a closer eye on each other.
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By Gareth Hatch |
July 6, 2011
As I've said elsewhere, I can't see these deposits ever being commercially exploited, but the empirical work done by the Japanese researchers which is presented in this paper, is impressive.
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By Gareth Hatch |
March 8, 2011
We can certainly debate and question specific projections. What's pretty clear though is that the figure of 278 kt for total rare earths in 2015 and beyond is referring to projected supply, not demand.
